Author: Abubakar Siddique Mohammed 

Sometime in 1977, General Joseph Nanven Garba, then our foreign minister, gave a lecture in the Assembly Hall, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. I was then teaching at the Ijebu Ode Grammar School, as a youth corper. General Garba had proved his mettle in that lecture, which was widely publicized. It was the golden era of Nigeria’s foreign relations. A few days later, I read a very well-articulated critique of General Garba’s lecture in the Nigerian Herald, owned by the Kwara state government. I was won over by the author, one Dr Ibrahim Agboola Gambari. Dr Gambari was employed in the…